Millions of missing women: China grapples with legacy of one-child policy as population ages
By 2050, analysts predict one in four people in China will be retired and the working population will have shrunk by 10%, with huge economic implications
Ming Ming, a boisterous six-year-old, longs to have a playmate, but his mother is adamant that she will not have another child.
“No way! One is quite enough,” Li Hong gasps. “Childcare, after-school activities, tutoring … you want them to have a good education but it costs money. We’re just ordinary working folks, not the super rich. The cost of bringing up two kids would kill us!” says the 43-year-old supermarket cashier from the southern province of Guangdong.
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